About
Silk Road Adventure
The Route in Detail
Daily Reports
Pics Hong Kong
Pics China
Temple of Heaven
The Forbidden City
The Great Wall
Big Wild GoosePagoda
Xian + its City Wall
Great Mosque of Xian
The Terracotta Army
Lanzhou to Xiahe
Labrang Monastery
Binglingsi Caves
The Great Wall 2
Wei and Jin Tombs
The Great Wall 3
Crescent Moon Lake
Mogao Caves
Emin Minaret
Jiaohe Ruins
Urumqi Museum
Kashgar: Market
Pics Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan Mountains
Sary Tash to Osh
Pics Uzbekistan
Pal of Khudayer Khan
Kokand to Tashkent
Samarkand
Shah i Zinda
Amir Temur
The Registan
Mirzo Ulughbek
Samarkand to Bukhara
Bukhara
Ark of Bukhara
Bolo Hauz Mosque
Po-i-Kalyan Complex
Pics Turkmenistan
Merv
Ashgabat
Night in Ashgabat
3 C BC Parthian Fort
Heavenly Horses
Pics Iran
Into Iran
Imam Reza Complex
Golestan Palace
Kashan: Fin Garden
Merchant’s House
Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Jameh Mosque Isfahan
New Julfa Isfahan
Blue Mosque Tabriz
Pics Turkey
Ishak Pasha Palace
Kars
Ani
Erzurum
To Kemaliye
To Sivas
Sivas
Amasya
Hittite Kingdom
Ankara
Ataturk Mausoleum
Anatolian Museum
Ankara to Istanbul
Istanbul
Sultan Ahmed Mosque
Hagia Sophia Museum
Contact
Family Pics

The Great Silk Road Adventure

A 7500 mile journey across Asia along the old Silk Road

This is the 'Kneeling Archer': an amoured infantryman who would have been holding a crossbow. Altogether 160 Kneeling Archers were found in Pit 2.

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